-For a Fight Night show this looked pretty loaded, with a bunch of fights I was heavily interested in and nothing really sticking out like it didn’t belong. Main event between Kevin Lee and Edson Barboza sounded fantastic and with the likes of Thiago Santos, Cub Swanson and Aljamain Sterling...

-On paper at least this looked like a guaranteed classic action card, with four fights featuring fighters who literally never fail to deliver (well, Marvin Vettori was a bit unproven I guess) and basically a likely FOTYC in the main event between Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje. Even the...

-Well, where to start with this one? What was originally the most loaded card of 2018 thus far turned into the most weird for a TON of reasons; firstly Tony Ferguson was forced out of his title unification fight with Khabib Nurmagomedov and replaced by Max Holloway of all people. Then Conor...

-The latest UFC card to hit the UK, this one was better than 2017’s effort at least thanks to a strong main event between Alexander Volkov and Fabricio Werdum, but it was still largely a weak card considering the ticket prices. But hey, for a Fight Pass card for those watching at home it...

-It’s not often that a UFC show gets improved by last-minute changes, but that was the case here – a weak card headlined by Max Holloway vs. Frankie Edgar was switched up when Holloway was forced out, and so we ended up with a cool-sounding Cris Cyborg main event co-headlined by Edgar...

-This was another weaker effort for a show on ‘big’ Fox although it was much better than January’s effort at least. I still don’t get why they’re putting such weak main events on Fox given this is the year the TV deal comes up though. Anyhow, it didn’t look like a bad card on paper...

-This show actually looked pretty high on action fights despite not having many big names, as the likes of Cerrone, Medeiros, Lewis, Trinaldo etc nearly always bring it. Not the best card of 2018 on paper but I was actually pretty intrigued.
UFC Fight Night 126
02/18/18
Austin, Texas
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-Another weekend, another maligned UFC card, then. This one was the first UFC show in Perth, but despite being a PPV it was largely a Fight Night-level card with a better main event in Middleweight champ Robert Whittaker defending against Luke Rockhold. Which of course went down the drain when...

-For a FS1 Fight Night in Brazil this was a surprisingly good card – not the best ever but somehow better than the effort on “big” Fox the week before! We did lose the co-main – John Dodson vs. Pedro Munhoz – when Munhoz missed weight, but it still sounded like fun to see Lyoto...

-This was by far the UFC’s weakest effort on “big” Fox, basically a mix of really poor choices for televised fights and too many shows at this point watering things down. Jacare/Brunson was a fine fight but the rest hardly sounded barnburning.
UFC on Fox: Jacare vs....

-This was the UFC’s first big PPV of 2018, with two massive title fights at the top, but unfortunately not much elsewhere. I get trying to showcase a handful of newcomers and prospects and stuff but I mean, surely they could do better than this? At least EVERYONE was pumped for Stipe Miocic...

-The first UFC show of 2018 then and the first UFC show in St. Louis – finally! – but it wasn’t the strongest card, mainly because it was a four-fight Fight Night show with no major main event (sorry Stephens vs. Choi!) and it lost it’s co-main – Uriah Hall vs. Vitor Belfort – at...

-The final UFC show of 2017 lost one of its big marquee fights in Jimmie Rivera vs. Dominick Cruz (and then John Lineker too) which meant it was a bit of a lesser PPV to be ending the year with, despite a title fight and the return of Khabib Nurmagomedov. I mean, Cris Cyborg does bring a...

-Pretty good action card for the final Fox show of 2017 even if it was missing the marquee names that usually draw the big numbers for the UFC. But hey, I’m more bothered about quality fights than big names and so-called “money fights” and with Robbie Lawler involved, I was pumped to see...

-Despite the presence of a couple of really good fights in Cub Swanson vs. Brian Ortega and Marlon Moraes vs. Aljamain Sterling, this was one of the year’s more throwaway cards, with a bunch of fighters you wouldn’t normally see on televised cards. Still, that pair of fights looked awesome...